Atelier national de recherche typographique, postgraduate research course, ENSAD Nancy (FR).
ONE MONTH LEFT!
ANRT call for applications 2025:
From 30 March to 23 June 2025.
Link in bio.
This year's ANRT Open Call poster is a collaborative project of the entire ANRT promo 2024–2026: @lothaire_arnx @lounabourdon @frncojonas @colinemln Nunzio Mazzaferro, @myrthevanrompaey during the workshop run by Studio Helmo.
Typeset in Milling by Tanguy Vanlaeys (ANRT 2017) @205tf with shapes after Prélettres by Eloisa Perez @poem_editions
We are delighted to be participating in the 5th Biennale of Graphic Design in Chaumont this year.
The exhibition 'Atelier national de recherche typographique (ANRT), 10 ans' highlights the various projects and numerous educational, academic, scientific, cultural, and professional partnerships carried out since 2013 by the ANRT team and its students.
from 21.05.2025 to 13.07.2025
Institut du patrimoine haut marnais
curator Thomas Huot-Marchand
scenography Morgan Fortems
@fontstand thank you Fontstand! And thanks Silvia!
Do you remember when @ANRT held its third Automatic Type Design conference? Silvia Sfligiotti was there, and now she’s written all about it for Fontstand News!
https://fontstand.com/news/design-news/automatic-type-design-3-mapping-the-type-design-space/
ANRT Call for applications 2025
From March 30th to June 23th, 2025
https://anrt-nancy.fr/en/apply
Programme is open to postgraduate in visual communication and graphic design who have completed a master’s degree or equivalent, and to professionals. Applicants can present a personal research project or apply to one of the 2024 research programmes: Frutiger Archive, Renouveau or The Missing Scripts.
Poster:
@lothaire_arnx @lounabourdon @frncojonas @colinemln Nunzio Mazzaferro, @myrthevanrompaey
Missing Scripts: Typographic development of Southern Sumatran scripts: Lampung to Kerinci by @marsnev 2023–2025
Lampung script is used on the southernmost tip of Sumatra Island, Indonesia. Though still in use, it has seen a decline in popularity due to the widespread adoption of the Latin alphabet. This research aims to develop a typographic representation of this script that is both culturally appropriate and suitable for contemporary use.
Presentation online (EN):
https://anrt-nancy.fr/en/videos#video-1070675190
Missing Scripts: Sidetic, the research project of @fangzheng 2023–2025
During the Iron Age, various alphabetic writing systems were used in Anatolia to record Anatolian and Phrygian languages. As the final piece of the puzzle of the ancient Anatolian alphabets (including Carien, Lycian, and Lydian), the encoding research of Sidetic script is an important component in completing the study of alphabets along the Pamphylian coast region.
Presentation online (EN):
https://anrt-nancy.fr/en/videos#video-1070671732
L'écriture décorative d'Alfred Erdmann, the research project of Juliette Ogier @ographique 2023–2025
“Decorative writing should be taught in all schools for general education” Alfred Erdmann, 1922.
Through the exploration of Alfred Erdmann’s unpublished archives, deposited in 2023 at the ANRT, this research aims to study the genesis of his work, as well as to examine and invest in his models of writing and teaching.
Presentation online (FR):
https://anrt-nancy.fr/en/videos#video-1070670109
In the margins of stones, the project of Camille Martinet @cmll_mrtnt 2023–2025
This research is about the heritage dimension and the revaluation of graffiti located inside Metz’s Cathedral of Saint-Étienne, and finding a graphic and typographic way to save them from being erased and forgotten.
Presentation online (EN):
https://anrt-nancy.fr/en/videos#video-1070673830
A Typeface for the Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 100, the project of Johannes Ammon @ammon 2023–2025
The Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, published yearly since 1926, is a scientific journal on printing, typography, and book history. For its 100th anniversary, Johannes Ammon created a custom typeface inspired by roman types printed in the early 16th century by Johann Schöffer in Mainz.
Presentation online (EN):
https://anrt-nancy.fr/en/videos#video-1070668198
La bolée de cristal, research project of Jeanne Saliou @jeannesaliou 2023–2025
For Béatrice Warde, in her essay "The Crystal Goblet, or Printing Should Be Invisible," typography must, by its very nature, fade into the background in service of the content. However, in a context of geographically situated creation, where typefaces contribute to the assertion of a linguistic presence, how can one navigate this tension between invisibility and expression?
Presentation (FR):
https://anrt-nancy.fr/en/videos#video-1070659412
Phong Hóa, the research project of Khải Nguyễn @quangkhai 2023–2025
The oddball of Việtnamese journalism and its playful typography as reference for contemporary type design
Phong Hóa was more than just a satirical journal—it was a cultural and visual revolution. Published in early 20th-century Hà Nội, this magazine redefined the landscape of Việtnamese print media with its sharp wit, bold caricatures, and innovative use of typography.
Final presentation (EN) is online
https://anrt-nancy.fr/en/videos#video-1070658491
Conférence Pratique + Critique : Lost in Translation avec Thomas Huot-Marchand.
Mardi 1er avril
18h30 - 20h00
École des Arts Décoratifs – PSL, l’amphithéâtre Rodin
Pratique + Critique est un cycle de conférences proposé par Catherine de Smet (Paris 8) et Philippe Millot (École des Arts Décoratifs – PSL) qui a pour but d’offrir une vision étendue du design graphique – de ses pratiques et de sa fabrique – comme champ de connaissance et de réflexion.
https://www.ensad.fr/fr/conference-pratique-critique-lost-translation
STARTING NEXT WEEK
Lecture, followed by a 2-sessions workshop about:
Font production, with @rosaliewagner
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn the basics of font production!
There is more to fonts than great designs. They also need to work well as exported files, and that requires some prep work, potentially some tidying-up, and checking on their “backstage” to make sure no bugs will happen when you use them.
More info and tickets at
https://wordsoftype.com/
Today,
ANRT final presentations 2023–2025
Join us online!
https://anrt-nancy.fr/en/journal/anrt-2023-2025-final-presentations
ANRT final presentations
March 27, Ensad Nancy & online
We invite you to see the final presentations of the ANRT promo 2023–2025: Johannes Ammon, Li Fangzheng, Camille Martinet, Khải Nguyễn, Juliette Ogier, Jeanne Saliou, Ariq Syauqi.
The presentations will be also recorded and available on the website: anrt-nancy.fr
Conférence Pratique + Critique : Frutiger et les aéroports de Paris avec Tânia Raposo @ainat
Mardi 18 mars
18h30 - 20h00
École des Arts Décoratifs – PSL, l’amphithéâtre Rodin
Pratique + Critique est un cycle de conférences proposé par Catherine de Smet (Paris 8) et Philippe Millot (École des Arts Décoratifs – PSL) qui a pour but d’offrir une vision étendue du design graphique – de ses pratiques et de sa fabrique – comme champ de connaissance et de réflexion.
Conférence Pratique + Critique : I am not a number ! Avec Yoann De Roeck
Mardi 11 mars
18h30 - 20h00
École des Arts Décoratifs – PSL, l’amphithéâtre Rodin
Pratique + Critique est un cycle de conférences qui explore une vision étendue du design graphique.
https://www.ensad.fr/fr/conference-pratique-critique-i-am-not-number-avec-yoann-de-roeck
🟣 automatic type design 3 🟢
The videos from two and a half days of symposium are available online 🔵
https://automatic-type-design.anrt-nancy.fr/colloques/automatic-type-design-3
